Team India gained the toss and elected to bowl first in the primary T20I against Afghanistan at Mohali’s Punjab Cricket Association’s IS Bindra Stadium on Thursday, January 11. Skipper Rohit Sharma talked about that the the pitch appeared good and wasn’t going to alter a lot and therefore needed to chase the overall. On the eve of the primary T20I, coach Rahul Dravid talked about that Rohit and Yashasvi Jaiswal will open the innings for India however not simply Jaiswal, neither Virat Kohli nor Sanju Samson made India’s line-up.
“Virat Kohli will miss the first game due to personal reasons. He will be playing from the second and third T20I,” head coach Dravid stated initially of the press convention even earlier than taking any questions. Since January 11 is Kohli’s daughter Vamika’s third birthday, many speculated that may very well be the explanation for the Indian No.3 lacking the sequence opener. On the opposite hand, BCCI in a press release on X (previously Twitter) confirmed skipper Rohit Sharma’s declare saying he did not pull up nicely. “Mr Yashasvi Jaiswal was unavailable for selection for the first T20I due to a sore right groin,” BCCI assertion learn.
Playing XIs
India:Â Rohit Sharma (C), Shubman Gill, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh, Ravi Bishnoi, Mukesh Kumar
Afghanistan: Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Ibrahim Zadran(c), Rahmat Shah, Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Najibullah Zadran, Karim Janat, Gulbadin Naib, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Naveen-ul-Haq, Mujeeb Ur Rahman
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